The underwriters of London’s Joint War Committee met in December to review the state of trouble spots around the world but decided to do nothing.
Despite threats of nuclear war between North Korea and the US, conflict between Saudi Arabia and Houthi fighters in Yemen, a diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its Persian Gulf neighbours and renewed tension with Iran, there has been no change for more than two years to the list of areas where additional premiums may be charged for war-risks cover.
